Pasta Soup for Food Fight Friday and the WorldsDailyFood Contest

Today I am entering my pasta soup into two contests:

My top photo is for the worldsdailyfood contest by @travelsbyblue where the theme today is pizza and pasta.

And the whole post is for Food Fight Friday, the fffunnest food contest on the steem blockchain!

My soup is made from almost everything I had in the house that day and all ingredients were from my local stores in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Those with price tags or packaging are from the new Halal Grocery that just opened right near me, and I am so glad to see them and their inexpensive ingredients.

So here we go:

Egad! What is this?!

It is 4 small dried (smoked?) fish I got for 47 cents usd and they look like this out of the package:

They are worried about what I am going to do to them, and they should be!

I wrestled as much meat off of them as I could with my bare hands, and there has got to be a better way. I wasted a lot but what I got was delicious.

Maybe @kaerpediem will come look and help me since she knows about the anchovies here. These are bigger fish, and so cheap and good. The halal place has them in the fridge, and I want to know what to do with them. Surely ripping them apart is not the best plan.

Now I have a lemon with the rind off, because fish needs lemon to taste the best. (It's a rule.)

The lighter is for the burner on my stove and for scale.

Now here is a whole bunch of clean ginger root I got for another 50 cents and some purple cabbage I already had.

A moody photo of chopping is above and a finer dice below. Darn cell phone!

Now the chopped ginger is in the mix withthe fish and lemon.

Time to slice the cabbage.

I mean dice.

Add now it's getting good.

Look! Here's the pasta now. It's cheap ramen that I crushed. I do not like to eat long noodles, so I break them in advance of cooking.

Way too much turmeric powder is still not enough for me.

Time for the kidney beans. I will use about one third of this can.

I finally found these beans in the store for 75 cents a can. ALL other beans I have seen here are baked beans or in tomato sauce. I like my beans to be pure.

So no syrup! Yuck!

Every thing else is already mixed.

And now the beans are dumped on top.

I cannot find molasses here in Kuala Lumpur so far. This dark brown sugar is 60 cents usd for 1000 mg and smells just the same, so I wing it.

Getting the price for my bad eyes.

Very unrefined. I took one of these sugar nuggets off after the photo so my soup would not be too sweet.

And now for the magic. I need to get everything softened up but not add too much boiling water. I want the soup to be hot when I am done.

Here is the first pour.

And now that first water got soaked up.

So here is some more.

And now after a few minutes, I topped it up, and my soup will be reasonably hot.

My little plate is so I can carry this back to my room since the bowl is hotter than the soup now.

I have black pepper and coconut oil in my room, and added them there. I am trying to show you I added them before stirring the soup one more time.

Can you see the oil in this angle?

Or this one?

You might be expecting a photo of the finished soup after I mixed in the pepper and oil, but haha! I did not take one :)

It was really good though.

I used my HMNOTE 1LTE mobile phone for these photos.

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